About the Author

Eugene Agafonov leads the development department at ABBYY and lives in Moscow. He has over 15 years of professional experience in software development, and he started working with C# when it was in beta version. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET since 2006, and he often speaks at local software development conferences, such as DevCon Russia, about cutting-edge technologies in modern web and server-side application development. His main professional interests are cloud-based software architecture, scalability, and reliability. Eugene is a huge fan of football and plays the guitar with a local rock band. You can reach him at his personal blog, eugeneagafonov.com, or find him on Twitter at @eugene_agafonov.

ABBYY is a global leader in the development of document recognition, content capture, and language-based technologies and solutions that are integrated across the entire information life cycle.

He is the author of Multhreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook and Mastering C# Concurrency by Packt Publishing.

I'd like to dedicate this book to my dearly beloved wife, Helen, and son, Nikita.